“Year One” by Nora Roberts is epic and a book I highly recommend, especially if you’ve enjoyed her books like The Sign of Seven Trilogy and The Guardians Trilogy. Faeries, elves, and witches living and working with policemen, teachers, and lawyers to build a new society that’s safe and welcoming for everyone. The people who learn to live together, pooling resources and relying on all types of abilities-supernatural as well as natural. While we see the horrors and atrocities, we also get to see the good. She takes readers on a frightening journey, but also manages to give us hope. And there is the fear.Īuthor Roberts has created a very disturbing reality in “Year One.” She explores the dark side of humanity, both the “normal” humans and their prejudice against any type of Uncanny or person who may be perceived as an Uncanny plus the dark Uncanny who simply are evil. There’s the rise of magic as tech dwindles and dies. This novel focuses more on the breakdown of order and the chaos that quickly follows.

Romance takes a backseat in “Year One” - even though we do get a nicely developed relationship between Lana and Max. If you pick up this book expecting the typical Nora Roberts romance, it’s not there. “Year One” is told from multiple POV’s and spans a full year in time. This trio eventually meets up with another group fleeing the city: Rachel the doctor, Jonah the paramedic, and Katie a young mother who just gave birth to twins and adopted a third baby left orphaned by the Doom. Also heading out of the city are Arlys and Fred, a journalist and a young intern who both worked for the same television station plus their friend Chuck, a tech genius. Now immunes, their powers have increased and they find themselves trying to get out of New York away from the savages and evil attempting to take over the city. Max and Lana practiced witchcraft before the Doom. There are witches, faeries, elves, and others, some light and some dark. Within a few weeks the world has been decimated-more than half the population is dead, infrastructures have collapsed, and the Uncanny are among the immune. It’s the New Year and amid the revelry a sickness has begun to spread. “Year One” by Nora Roberts offers readers a disturbing glimpse into human nature when civilization as we know it ends and a world with new rules and ancient magicks emerges.įrom the Good Reads synopsis, “The end has come. (YEAR ONE by Nora Roberts, Chapter Six, page 96) It’s never going to be, but you get up and keep going.” You get up, thinking for just a split second, everything’s the way it was. “You get up in the morning, and do what you have to do.

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